Author Archives: Saba Riazati

The chandelier lights dimmed when Alison De La Cruz, the first of the performers for the Queer Alliance Performance Night, adjusted the music stand in front of her and got ready to read her original poetry. The tall empty room turned cozy as more people walked in on the event. “I want to share what’s […]

A group of several UCLA students sit together inside a small office. They aren’t playing cards or discussing their plans for Saturday night like most young adults would do during a lazy summer-vacation day. Instead, they are planning how to educate the thousands in the UCLA community on the Armenian Genocide of 1915. Members of […]

More than 10 years ago, Mark Pulido, the 1992-1993 president of the Undergraduate Students Association Council, had campaign goals to fulfill. Today, those goals are still worked on by his successors long after his graduation. Council members find it daunting to complete their projects during their one-year term, but for those who are graduating and […]

Eight appointments, seven hours and two recesses later, the undergraduate student government meeting came to a close past 2 a.m. on Wednesday after a long night of deliberations on the presidential appointments. In the Undergraduate Students Association Council meeting Tuesday, most of the presidential appointments were approved to the various standing committees from programming to […]

Involvement with UCLA normally ends with graduation, but for young, enigmatic and upbeat personality Todd Sargent, his graduation in 1996 only marked the beginning of his active role in UCLA in a different way. Sargent is the newly appointed UCLA Alumni Association representative to the Undergraduate Students Association Council and is a part of the […]

There are 13 elected positions on the undergraduate student government. Next year, there could be nearly 800 members influencing, discussing, debating, and being more directly involved in the council’s actions with the approval of a new proposal. Jenny Wood, Undergraduate Students Association Council president, has proposed a new advisory council composed of student representatives chosen […]

It’s Tuesday, and for those who spend most of their time inside Kerckhoff Hall, it’s meeting day for the Undergraduate Students Association Council. Tonight, however, will be the first time in a year that the 2004-2005 council will not meet ““ instead, council members will be packing their past USAC project materials and leaving the […]